All old people should sell up family homes for families.

How about you word your post better?
You've replied to a post about how the elderly should sell up.
How about you think how it comes across

Hey, it turns out you’re also good at sarcasm 🤣 If intergenerational living is so important to you why are you not practicing it? I am. There are three generations under our roof and it’s great. Why don’t you try it?

@Cosyblankets Our issue is not seeing and greeted by elderly people every day. We have a little one and we don't plan to have another child in the future. As we are not native here that means he doesn't have any cousins here. So my concern is will he get to play and mingle with kids from his age group in the neighborhood. Also, we come from a culture where living with grandparents is quite common. P.S. Before judging someone quickly, how about we take a pause and breathe.

Thank you so much for the suggestion. I wasn't aware of this. I will have a look at it.

@NarcNarc I am from a different country and English is not my first language but I can still understand the sarcasm here. Our issue is not seeing and greeted by elderly people every day. We have a little one and we don't plan to have another child. As we are not native here that means he doesn't have any cousins here. So my concern is will he get to play and mingle with kids from his age group in the neighborhood. Also, we come from a culture where living with grandparents is quite common. P.S. Before judging someone quickly, how about we take a pause and breathe.

Are you for real?

Even the views opposing elderly selling their homes seem insensitive on here 'we can't make them'!

I mean I've worked all my life in high paying jobs to afford my home. I came from a really poor background and I'm bloody damned if at 64 or whatever someone thinks 'oh you don't deserve that now, move over' I look after my girls, I provide them with cash as and when but no one is going to tell me at a certain age what I can and cannot do with my hard earned money!

Goodness, please don’t buy a home where you or your children might have to see shudder old people. Far nicer to live in the inner city where your children can find nice used needles on the street to play with. Safer all round than risking an elderly lady saying hello to them. Problem solved 🤣

Stamp duty!

The only reason I am not able to make a decision yet is the most residents in the neighborhood are elderly people

have you looked at the actual demographics for the voting ward? You may have visited at a time most families with working age parents were at work or it was an untypical example. https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS007/editions/2021/versions/2#get-data

Absolutely horrible suggestion.

My parents worked extremely hard to get their house and pay their mortgage especially with interest rates in double digits.

It's their home, comfort and security. They love where it is, know all the neighbours, feel save etc.

There isn't any incentive that would convince them to move.

I think I held this view, until MIL started to look at downsizing.
Downsizing from their 3 bed semi- house in a more modern condition £400k.
To go to a 2 bedroom bungalow, same sort of condition, £385k.

Not worth the stress if they're moving for anything other than their own want at that point is there?

Hi, we are a young family with a little boy who will go to school next year. We are looking for a property to buy and really loved one. The only reason I am not able to make a decision yet is the most residents in the neighborhood are elderly people. The owners have been living there for 46 years. There's a Sainsbury's superstore within 10 minutes' walk and when we visited it we saw only two couples who were young and the rest of the customers were all 60+ people. Where we are living now had 3 supermarkets near us and never saw that many elderly people at one time in a store. Will this be an issue for us especially for the little one if we buy this property? I am worried if he will have any peers in the neighborhood.

I sold my house to upsize as dd and ds are buying a place with me that can be divided into 3 homes. I come from an extended family and really have difficulty with families buying individually when together they could afford much more

Some do, particularly the out of town "campus" style ones such as Warwick, York, Lancaster, Durham, who have a lot of Uni-owned accommodation on site, but even then, it's usually mainly for first year students, so most second and third year students live in nearby towns/cities. There's simply not enough land on site for places like Lancaster and York to treble the number of their "on site" flats to accommodate all their students. Obviously, Unis located in cities don't usually have the land to build their own new accommodation blocks and are often restricted/limited by existing buildings and existing site size, so new blocks are usually built by private developers on whatever nearby sites they can source, but again, still nowhere near enough for all students, so most will live in converted family houses etc., often in the same suburbs and commuting workers!

The problem is the massive growth in numbers going to Uni these days, not just UK residents, but also huge numbers from abroad, who also need somewhere to live. The politicians who presided over the growth in Unis don't seem to have realised that students need to live somewhere. Hence, why I think there should be a push or incentives or whatever to encourage students to go to a more local Uni and live at home, especially as many lectures etc are online these days, so less need to actually be "on campus" every day.

They do to some extent. Dds accommodation was a small room as was ds

I'd agree about shared occupancy. My son has just endured 3 years of having to share a kitchen at University. He said it was like living with savages. And these are people he "chose" to live with in the 2nd and 3rd years, so people he actually liked and was friendly with. The only way he survived it was having his own en-suite bathroom, and having a small fridge, kettle and toaster in his room so he could avoid the kitchen as much as possible. He liked the people, would go out socialising and for day trips with them, but just couldn't do with the shared kitchen due to the mess, filthy cooker & microwave, piles of dirty dishes filling the sink and worktops, mouldy food in the fridge, etc. Not to mention his flatmates stealing his stuff, i.e. bread, milk, etc leaving him short when he wanted it! These were people he was friendly with!

He's just got a job in a different city where flats are ridiculously expensive and hard to get, so we'd suggested a flat/room in a shared house (which are also expensive and hard to find, but slightly easier/cheaper). He was adamant he wasn't going to risk it and so is paying through the nose, using his savings, to pay a stupid high amount for the only flat he even managed to secure a viewing for, out of town, not a good location, but to him, not having to share a kitchen (and especially not a bathroom) is essential.

He's not ND, doesn't have ADHD, nor OCD, or anything else like that, perfectly normal, and never thought he'd have a problem with sharing a kitchen, but it's been a nightmare for him. He naively thought other people would be even slightly civilised, but apparently not!

Possibly the silliest and most impractical post I have seen this year. 😂

Absolutely and probably had to put up with being born in the war or living with the aftermath of rationing

I think if we hadn't had so much immigration since the 90s then we wouldn't be having these problems

I get that there are other factors but it really hasn't helped

The main problem is second homes, empty investment properties, and holiday lets. They need to be taxed until the pips squeak to discourage people from owning them, or if they really want to own them, then at least get a huge wedge of tax from the owners which can't be avoided/evaded.

Alongside that, encourage students to go to Uni near home so they can live at home and therefore don't take up homes that could be used for families. Most Uni towns have a housing crisis for locals, as investors buy up family homes and convert them into student lets.

As a local, you've no hope whatsoever if you are unlucky enough to live and/or work in a town/city that is both a tourist hotspot and has a University! Your chances of finding somewhere to live as your own home is virtually zero.

There are lots of people with hidden disabilities who really would suffer in shared accommodation, my son who has ASD really would lose it with others . And then what?

My last sentence was sarcastic incase anyone misinterpreted

Single people of whatever age should be banned from single occupancy living and live in shared occupancy housing and unless the resident of a bungalow has mobility problems, these should be repossessed and resold/reissued to those who do.
@CaliPistachio

Batshit response from someone who has no life experience.

My great uncle was raped in the army, never really spoke about it due to shame and had complex PTSD as a result. Never married or had kids. You'd have seriously forced him into a houseshare with randomers, rather than letting him have peace and quiet living alone close to family. My grandma died 10 years ago, would you have ripped my grieving grandad out of the family 3 bed home he spent 60 years in, to go and live in a house share at the grand old age of 85.

I say this again as a married woman with children, single people childfree people get screwed over enough in this country. Let's send them to communes for other singles who haven't reproduced or got married.

Of course the elderly should be looked after (in the way small children should also be looked after - they’re completely blameless after all, as well as being the future), but they already are in my opinion. They receive a lot of concessions and are the the wealthiest group in society, so nothing suggests to me that we aren’t looking after them.

We should be looking after our old people not punishing them. They were the ones who raised us.